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W. J. CASS.

WHIFFLETREE IRON. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. um.

Patented June 17, 1919.

ATTORNEYS WILLIAM JONES CASS, OF EASTON, MAINE.

WHIFFLETREE-IRON'.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jung 1'7, 1919,

Application filed September 24, 1918. Serial No. 255,449.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. (hes, a subject of Great Britain, and a resident of Easton, in the county of Aroostook and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved NhifHetree-Iron, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to draft appliances, and its object is to provide a new and improved whiflletree iron arranged to provide a wearing member for the ring, link, cockeye or similar device used for receiving the end of the trace. Another object is to permit convenient detachment of the wearing member when worn out and replacing it by a new one. Another object is to provide a simple means for securely holding the wearing member in position on the whiffletree iron.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a whiffletree iron as applied;

Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the wearing member;

Fig. 1 is an inverted plan view of the same; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the whifiletree iron with the wearing member detached.

The whiflietree iron 10, as illustrated in Fig. 1, is provided with a clip or a ferrule 11 secured in the usual manner to one end of the whiffletree 12. The ferrule 11 is provided with an integral forwardly extending eye 15 having an eye opening 16 into which fits a wearing member 17, preferably flush on the top and bottom with the top and bottom of the eye 15, as plainly illustrated in Fig. 2. The wearing member 17 is provided with a slot 18 which extends inwardly from the peripheral face of the wearing member 17, and through this slot passes a ring 19 or other similar device to which the end of the trace is attached in the usual manner, it being understood that this ring 19 also extends through the eye opening 16 and practically forms a permanent part of the whiflietree iron. The slot 18 is preferably located at the rear end of the wearing member 17 and the forward end of this wearing member 17 is provided with a forvWardly extending lug 20 seated in a seat 21 formed in the top of the eye 15 at the forward end thereof, the seat 21 leading to the eye opening 16, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. The lug 20 is fastened to the seat 21 by a suitable fastening device such, for instance, as a rivet 22 formed on the under side of the lug and extending through an opening 23 formed in the seat 21. The head of the rivet is formed at the under side of the eye to securely hold the wearing member 17 in position in the eye opening 16.

In order to aid the rivet 22 in holding the bearing member 17 in position in the eye opening 16 the wall of the latter is beveled, with the forward half portion beveled in one direction and the rear half portion beveled in the opposite direction, as plainly indicated in the drawings. The peripheral edge of the wearing member 17 is similarly beveled thus fitting the bevel of the wall of the eye opening 16 to hold the wearing member 17 in place.

It will be noticed that the ring 19 wears on the wall of the slot 18 of the wearing member 17 and in case this wearing member 17 is worn out it can be readily removed from the eye 15 and replaced by a new one. By the arrangement described the whiflletree iron can be used for a long time as the wear is on the removable wearing member and not on the ferrule and its eye 15.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A whifiietree iron provided with an integral eye having in one face at its front a seat leading to the opening of the eye, a wearing member fitting into the eye opening and having at its rear a slot and having at its front an attaching lug fitting in the said seat, means for securing the lug in the seat and a trace attaching member engaging the said slot.

2. A whiffietree iron provided with an integral eye having in its upper face at its front a seat leading to the opening of the eye and provided with an opening, a wear ing member fitting into the eye opening and having at its rear a slot and having at its front an attaching lug, the lug having on 1ts under face an lntegral rivet extendlng through the openlng of the said seat, and a trace attaching member engaging the said 'eye being beveled, the forward half of the Wall being beveled in a reverse direction to that of the rear half of the Wall, a wearlng member fitting 1nto the sald eye epening and having its edge beveled to fit the beveled Wall of the eye opening, the Wearing memher having at its front an integral lug fitting into the said seat and the Wearing member having at its rear a slot, fastening means fastening the said lug to the eye, and a ring-shaped trace attaching member passing through the said slot.

4. A Whifiletree iron provided with an integral eye having the Wall of its opening beveled, a Wearing member fitting into the said eye and having a slot, fastening means fastening the said Wearing member in place in the eye, and a ring-shaped trace attaching member engaging the said slot.

WILLIAM J ON E'S CASS.

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Washington, D. C. 

